1. Image Resampling & Interpolation
CS5670: Computer Vision
Noah Snavely
Image Resampling & Interpolation

2. Image Scaling
This image is too big to fit on the screen. How can we generate a half-sized version?
Source: S. Seitz

3. Image sub-sampling
1/8
1/4
Throw away every other row and column to create a 1/2 size image
- called image sub-sampling
Source: S. Seitz

4. Image sub-sampling 1/2 1/4 (2x zoom) 1/8 (4x zoom)
Why does this look so crufty?
Source: S. Seitz

5. Image sub-sampling – another example
Source: F. Durand

6. Even worse for synthetic images
Source: L. Zhang

7. Aliasing
Occurs when your sampling rate is not high enough to capture the amount of detail in your image
Can give you the wrong signal/image—an alias
To do sampling right, need to understand the structure of your signal/image
Enter Monsieur Fourier…
“But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.”
To avoid aliasing:
sampling rate ≥ 2 * max frequency in the image
said another way: ≥ two samples per cycle
This minimum sampling rate is called the Nyquist rate
Source: L. Zhang

8. Wagon-wheel effect
(See
Source: L. Zhang

9. Nyquist limit – 2D example
Good sampling
Bad sampling

10. Aliasing When downsampling by a factor of two How can we fix this?
Original image has frequencies that are too high
How can we fix this?

11. Gaussian pre-filtering
Solution: filter the image, then subsample
Source: S. Seitz

12. Subsampling with Gaussian pre-filtering
Solution: filter the image, then subsample
Source: S. Seitz

13. Compare with...
1/2
1/4 (2x zoom)
1/8 (4x zoom)
Source: S. Seitz

14. Gaussian pre-filtering
Solution: filter the image, then subsample F1 F2 …
blur
subsample
blur
subsample
F0 H *
F1 H *

15. { … F0 F0 H * Gaussian pyramid F1 F1 H * F2 blur subsample blur

17. Gaussian pyramids [Burt and Adelson, 1983]
In computer graphics, a mip map [Williams, 1983]
A precursor to wavelet transform
Gaussian Pyramids have all sorts of applications in computer vision
Source: S. Seitz

18. Gaussian pyramids [Burt and Adelson, 1983]
How much space does a Gaussian pyramid take compared to the original image?
Source: S. Seitz

19. Gaussian Pyramid

20. Questions?

21. Upsampling This image is too small for this screen:
How can we make it 10 times as big?
Simplest approach:
repeat each row
and column 10 times
(“Nearest neighbor
interpolation”)

22. Image interpolation Recall that a digital images is formed as follows:
d = 1 in this
example 1 2 3 4 5
Recall that a digital images is formed as follows:
It is a discrete point-sampling of a continuous function
If we could somehow reconstruct the original function, any new image could be generated, at any resolution and scale
Adapted from: S. Seitz

23. Image interpolation Recall that a digital images is formed as follows:
d = 1 in this
example 1 2 3 4 5
Recall that a digital images is formed as follows:
It is a discrete point-sampling of a continuous function
If we could somehow reconstruct the original function, any new image could be generated, at any resolution and scale
Adapted from: S. Seitz

24. Image interpolation What if we don’t know ? Guess an approximation:1
d = 1 in this
example 1 2
2.5 3 4 5
What if we don’t know ?
Guess an approximation:
Can be done in a principled way: filtering
Convert to a continuous function:
Reconstruct by convolution with a reconstruction filter, h
Adapted from: S. Seitz

25. Image interpolation “Ideal” reconstruction
Nearest-neighbor interpolation
Linear interpolation
Gaussian reconstruction
Source: B. Curless

26. Reconstruction filters
What does the 2D version of this hat function look like?
performs
linear interpolation
(tent function) performs
bilinear interpolation
Often implemented without cross-correlation
E.g.,
Better filters give better resampled images
Bicubic is common choice
Cubic reconstruction filter

27. Image interpolation Original image: x 10
Nearest-neighbor interpolation
Bilinear interpolation
Bicubic interpolation

28. Image interpolation
Also used for resampling

29. Raster-to-vector graphics

30. Depixelating Pixel Art

31. Modern methods
From Romano, et al: RAISR: Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution,

32. Questions?